Dr Nnenna Kanu

Dr Nnenna Kanu is a cancer researcher at the UCL Cancer Institute. Her early work revealed key roles for replication stress and chromosomal instability in driving cellular diversity and ensuing intratumour heterogeneity. She has since worked in the field of cancer evolution working closely on the TRACERx study. She leads the Genome Plasticity Group at UCL where her research program encompasses several pioneering areas in cancer genomics and epigenomics using computational and experimental approaches. In 2023 she was award a Rosetrees NEXT Fellowship and was appointed the Chief Scientific Officer of the CRUK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, where she oversees the Centre’s basic science research strategy and is exploring key roles for DNA methylation and replication timing alterations during cancer evolution.